#weeds

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#call #fear #garden #keep #mind

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#get #know #once #them #too

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#flowers #grow #like #little #seeds

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#corn #gene #herbicides #kill #makes

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#rate #regulations #same #weeds

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices